Example sentences of "he [verb] how [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 2 | He asked how we are going to pay for the borrowing . |
| 3 | He asked how you were and said you were a very good horse-woman . " |
| 4 | He recounted how it was his standard lunch time practice in the 60 's to rush to places such as Ifton Colliery , St. Martin 's , near Oswestry to photograph their railways and to chat to some of the characters who operated them . |
| 5 | In a letter to Leopold he described how he was kept waiting in an icy antechamber for half an hour by the Duchesse de Chabot , to whom he was to play the clavier : when he did play , the assembled company completely ignored him , and continued to sketch . |
| 6 | He described how he was shocked when she returned home with a gash above her eye and ‘ blood all over her face and clothes . ’ |
| 7 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 8 | And he told how he was ordered to retrieve the plans from the woman 's home early the next morning . |
| 9 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 10 | He describes how he was called to answer complaints from a group of thirty older church members in a chapter aptly entitled : ‘ You have destroyed my church ’ . |
| 11 | Without speaking a word , he continued to scrutinise the young man and to feel greatly satisfied when he saw how he was unnerving his victim . |
| 12 | He knew how it was done . |
| 13 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 14 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 15 | In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you . |
| 16 | She stepped up to him , put her arm round his neck and leaned in towards him , waiting for his kiss , while he wondered how he was going to explain Laura 's presence in the kitchen . |
| 17 | He wondered how she was and why she was n't writing . |